Weekends with Max and His Dad

Reviewed by: Phyllis Fuchs - Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: December 8, 2016

Review

While divorce-fiction is one of this book's suggested subject headings, the word divorce never appears in this moving story. By the book's end, eight year old, third grader Max understands that he has two safe and happy places to sleep and that one is at his mom's house and the other at his father's new apartment. Three weekends of Max visiting his dad are each detailed for the reader and they bring both Max and his father to a realistic acceptance of the recent changes in their new family life. Black and white drawings, some humorous and some touching, appear on most pages of the story's one hundred and fifty pages. Most suitable for boys of about seven to nine years old, the book would make a fine choice for parent or adult and child to read together. The book being read by a teacher to a class might promote both observations and discussion. Recommended as a timely and appropriate choice for home, school ad public libraries.

Overall Book Score: good